Handle for tools



Dec. 15, 1925. 1,565,599

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Patented Dec. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

WILLIAM HATTON STEVENS, OF HOLLIDAYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HANDLE ronroots.

Application filed October 18, 1922. Serial No. 595,443.

ferred form, by the combination of a wood stem with a D-top of baked molded fibre which has a reinforcing core or skeleton.

A preferred form of my D-handle is set out in the following description and the accompanying illustration thereof.

In the accompanying illustrations, F ig. 1 is an elevation representing both the front and back view of the top of a handle embodying a preferred form of my invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

The handle illustrated comprises the wood stem or shaft 1, having the reduced top 2 to provide a species of tenon for engagement in the D-handle piece 3 tohe fixed to the stem or shaft.

The hand piece 3 comprises a pressed sheetmetal core or skeleton composed of two similar dished parts qtjoined on the line i and fixed together by rivets 5 and 6.

As the parts 4 have the similar tops 7 of senii-cylindrical cross section adapted for registration. the similar bodies 7' having registering flanges 8 and 9, and similar semicylindrical sections 10 turned inwardly from the lower ends thereof and adapted to register, the parts are conveniently made by simple dies, and fixed together with their edges in registering relation with the provision of a strong core or skeleton having a single joint. In the bushing formed by the parts 1010 the tenon 2 is fixed, a rivet or bolt 11 passing through the parts 2, 9 and 10.

The skeleton or core thus formed is pro vided with a shell or body 12 of fibrous material, which is molded thereon in integral form so as to completely encase the same and join in abutting relation with the shoulder 13 of the stem 1 at the base of the tenon 2.

This shell or body may be composed of various fibrous materials mixed with a binder, and baked when molded on the skeleton, with the provision of a hard, strong and smooth hand piece that affords the hand of the workman a good grip.

I have found the shell can be made very satisfactorily from such materials as kelp pulp, sawdust or ground leather mixed with casein or plastic bakelite, the filler and binder being suitably in equal parts thoroughly mixed before molding and the molded plastic shell baked.

This handle saves the large waste of wood involved in making an integral or satis factory all-wood D-handle, in addition to providing an efficient construction at low cost. c

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A tool handle having a wood stem and a D-hand piece comprising a hollow pressed metal core composed of similar. sections with registering edges and a body of molded fibrous material encasing said core.

2 A tool handle having a wood stem with an end tenon and a D-hand piece comprising a pressed metal D-core with a bush ing turned up from the end thereof and in which said tenon is fixed and a casing of fibrous material for said core.

3. A tool handle having a stem and a D- hand piece comprising a fibrous body and a hollow metal core of similar form in said body, said core composed of similar dished D-parts having their edges in registration.

4. A tool handle having a D-hand piece comprising a metal core and a bodyof baked composition composed of a fibrous material mixed with a binder and completely encasing said core.

Signed at Altoona, county of Blair and State of Pennsylvania, this 16th day of October, 1922. r 1

WILLIAM HATTON STEVENS, 

